When Hannah Kenyon was born on 31 August 1837, in Hague, Warren, New York, United States, her father, Kelsey Kenyon, was 34 and her mother, Lucy Balcom, was 28. She married John Harris Carpenter on 28 June 1855, in York Township, Carroll, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Thomson, Carroll, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 30 September 1903, in York Township, Carroll, Illinois, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Argo Cemetery, Argo Fay, Carroll, Illinois, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1839: Carroll, Illinois, United States
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English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place near Warrington, which is of uncertain etymology. There was formerly an ancient burial mound there and Ekwall has speculated that the name is a shortened form of a British name composed of the elements crūc ‘mound’ + a personal name cognate with Welsh Einion (see Eynon ).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinín ‘son of Coinín’, a byname based on a diminutive of cano ‘wolf’, also Anglicized as Canning and Cunneen . The similarity to the borrowed word coinín ‘coney, rabbit’ has sometimes caused this name to be Anglicized as Rabbitt .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhinghin, ‘son of Finghen’, a personal name meaning ‘fair-born’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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